Share this article

A nine-year-old Barcelona girl who went missing seven months ago has been rescued from captivity deep in Bolivia's Amazon rainforest.

The child had been missing since last August when her parents, Moroccan residents in the Catalan city of Hospitalet de Llobregat, allowed her to go on holiday with a Bolivian neighbour they were friends with.

The girl's mother and father spoke to local police when they were unable to contact the pair several days after they had landed in their alleged destination of Bolivia.

Spain’s Civil Guard and Catalonia's Mossos d’Esquadra police forces worked with Bolivian authorities to try to determine where the girl and her captor were located.